The story's hero is Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he's still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person's consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora's indigenous humanoids, the Na'vi. This human-Na'vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na'vi but possesses the individual human's thoughts, feelings and personality – is known as an "avatar." In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na'vi with the hope of enlisting their help – or at least their acquiescence – in mining the ore. A beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life, albeit reluctantly, because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to her the human encroachment on the Na'vi's unspoiled world. As Jake's relationship with Neytiri deepens, along with his respect for the Na'vi, he faces the ultimate test as he leads an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.This is without a shadow of a doubt the most visually amazing movie ever made. I can't remember the last time that I said "Wow" out loud so many times during a movie. I was afraid that the effects and method of filming would be all there was to this movie, but I was wrong. There was a story. It was pretty basic for a 3 hour movie, but it was there. The character development was done well enough that you get pumped up by the good guys and are totally rooting against the bad guys as the movie goes on. Is it too long? Of course it is. They could have easily trimmed out some of the tribal scenes to bring this to 2 1/2 hours. And the script at times was silly to say the least. I'm not sure that I will ever recover from the fact that they actually named the hard to obtain mineral "unobtanium". That was rough. Outside of that, I really have no complaints about this movie.
I strongly recommend that everyone check this movie out. Its a must see visual treat and the movie is very enjoyable.
